This is a very accurate description of my recent behavior, though I’m working on spaced repetition software. It’s something I’m trying to learn to not do.
Claude code can often create the feeling of progress on a project while producing very little useful output. It seems the models have, for some reason, become good at engendering a feeling of clarity, without actually producing very much insight into the problem.
On the other hand, LLM chat in the browser is pretty unbeatable for queries like “what is a CRDT and what human authored content should I read to really understand them” + a few follow up questions.
Additionally…
I’ve had success with various ‘reformatting’ tasks. I.e. turn this paper into a presentation, or these stream of consciousness notes into a more nicely formatted and well organized document. I’ve had mixed success with “review this” kinds of tasks. They often find issues, but also often produce a ton of false positives that waste a ton of time.
Like silentbob I also know engineers with ‘extremely advanced agentic coding workflows’ but I’ve never been able to replicate their success.
This is a very accurate description of my recent behavior, though I’m working on spaced repetition software. It’s something I’m trying to learn to not do.
Claude code can often create the feeling of progress on a project while producing very little useful output. It seems the models have, for some reason, become good at engendering a feeling of clarity, without actually producing very much insight into the problem.
On the other hand, LLM chat in the browser is pretty unbeatable for queries like “what is a CRDT and what human authored content should I read to really understand them” + a few follow up questions.
Additionally…
I’ve had success with various ‘reformatting’ tasks. I.e. turn this paper into a presentation, or these stream of consciousness notes into a more nicely formatted and well organized document. I’ve had mixed success with “review this” kinds of tasks. They often find issues, but also often produce a ton of false positives that waste a ton of time.
Like silentbob I also know engineers with ‘extremely advanced agentic coding workflows’ but I’ve never been able to replicate their success.